Connecting Cultures Through Farming and Food
Our Vision
Transplanting Traditions Community Farm envisions a world in which all people have access to healthy affordable food, land, education, satisfying work and a space to celebrate culture and to build strong, resilient communities.
Producer Hub
Farmers at Transplanting Traditions operate a Community Supported Agriculture program where customers can purchase directly from farmers and they sell at many local farmers markets.The farmers grow a mix of familiar seasonal vegetables and Southeast Asian vegetables traditionally grown in Burma. Though not certified, all produce is grown organically without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or fungicides.
Farmer Education and Leadership Program
Many refugee and immigrant farmers join Transplanting Traditions with a wealth of agricultural knowledge and skills and a deep desire to re-connect to their deeply rooted cultural heritage of farming. However, farming and operating a farm business is drastically different in N.C than in Burma and many other countries. To help farmers to adapt, Transplanting Traditions works with farmers to increase farming and business skills through training, workshops and winter classroom education.
Food Access
The Share a Share food access program uses donations from community members like you to purchase traditional vegetables and herbs from Transplanting Traditions farmers. Produce is then donated or purchased by local partners who distribute the culturally appropriate, fresh food to low income and refugee families with limited food access.
Early Childhood and Youth Programs
The Transplanting Traditions Youth Program has been built from the ground up in collaboration with the refugee community youth. Youth participate in workshops on topics that they most feel they need such as college preparation and participate in local and national food justice opportunities. The Transplanting Traditions children’s program operates Rooted & Ready,an early childhood education program for children and parents and provides regular tutoring for refugee children.
The Producer Hub
The Transplanting Traditions site is home to 8 farm businesses. Farmers share things like infrastructure repair costs, produce delivery and agricultural knowledge, while staff support with overcoming barriers associated with running a business, such as language support and digital marketing. Community Supported Agriculture is a way to build a relationship with a farmer, to be closely tied to the seasons, and to make a firm commitment to eating locally.
At Transplanting Traditions, a CSA is also a way to invest in local refugee farmers who are recreating home here in the Triangle. As a nonprofit, TTCF supports farmers with land access, agricultural education, and marketing for their independently owned, for-profit farm businesses. Farmers share things like infrastructure repair costs, produce delivery and agricultural knowledge, while staff support with overcoming barriers associated with running a business, such as language support and digital marketing.
100% of produce and flowers are grown organically without pesticides. By buying into the TTCF CSA you are supporting refugee owned farm businesses and bringing the highest quality fresh produce into your home.
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Together, we are making a difference in the lives of refugee and immigrant farmers and their families as they access land, grow traditional food important to their culture and operate agricultural businesses.
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Resources
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The Story of Three Farmers
A documentary made by Transplanting Traditions Youth Collaborative. This team conducted all the interviews, took the photos, translated, wrote subtitles, created the story line and edited every bit of this documentary! Thanks to volunteers and support from NC...
The Land
Transplanting Traditions Community Farm (TTCF) is located on 269 acres of preserved farmland owned by the Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC). With a grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC in 2010, TLC was able to set up the initial infrastructure of the land in...
Old Roots in New Places
Nay Blu is a refugee farmer who grew both American and Southeast Asian crops with Transplanting Traditions. He is one of 800 refugees from Burma living in Orange County, North Carolina, who have escaped ethnic genocide in their homeland and left overcrowded refugee...
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